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Muhammad Mahmood 2019-08-24 20:31:36
In July this year, a high level 15-member Myanmar delegation visited refugee camps in Cox's Bazar district in Bangladesh where Rohingya refugees are now located. The delegation was headed by the pe...
ABM Razaul Karim Faquire 2019-08-23 20:32:36
The prevalent English Language Education (ELE) practices have escalated opportunity costs due to flaws in the Education Policy. Though an ELE provision requires a backup of Language Policy (LP), Bangl...
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Had there been no British administration, though colonial, Dhaka's Lalbagh Fort and its other landmark relics would have crumbled down one-and-half to two centuries ago. In their place the city reside...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-08-22 21:27:23
The girls' education has long been considered one of the single most effective development investments that can be made. Providing girls with quality education not only empowers them throughout their...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-08-22 21:26:29
In a powerful piece relating robotic capacities, among other "digital revolution" features, to the human being's brain evolution, Jay N. Giedd observed more than half a dozen years ago the pivotal pla...
Hasnat Abdul Hye 2019-08-22 21:16:20
Bangladesh Bank should realise that it is not enough to maintain policy rate, repo rate and reverse repo rate unchanged along with maintaining the same limits for statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) and c...
Kemal Dervis and Sebastián Strauss in Washington, DC 2019-08-21 20:48:33
Climate change is probably the biggest threat facing humanity today. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world must cut its carbon dioxide emissions t...
M S Siddiqui 2019-08-20 20:26:07
The financial transaction or the arrangement through which a company sells its invoiced debts to a third party, at discount in exchange for immediate cash to finance continued business, is called Fact...
Abdullah A Dewan 2019-08-20 20:20:30
Multi-front intricate issues crop up, day in and day out, in the economic life of a nation that needs to be analysed and interpreted. A country's fiscal authority may not be equipped with analysts and...
Brian Malika in Nairobi, Kenya 2019-08-19 20:39:08
Employment delivers more than a paycheck. It also offers personal independence, social status, and the self-esteem that these assets bring. For people with disabilities, these benefits are particularl...
Enayetullah Khan 2019-08-17 21:14:10
In the dawn of August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made one of his final phone calls to his military secretary Col Jamil Uddin Ahmad. He had been attacked, Bangabandhu told Col Jamil, a...
M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-08-15 22:20:19
Reading in the Mobile Era: A Study of Mobile Reading in Developing Countries Published by UNESCO Pages 87, ISBN 978-92-3-100023-2 "I actually read more on my mobile than I used to. I...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-08-15 21:34:48
At about the time of Bangladesh's independence, none other than a student and scholar of History, Arnold Toynbee, who had already written about the growth and decline of 26 civilisations in an epic...
Thalif Deen in UN Headquarters, New York 2019-08-15 21:20:14
When Yassir Arafat was denied a US visa to visit New York to address the United Nations back in 1988, the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily moving the UN's highest policy making...
Nuzhat Rifa Ehsan 2019-08-14 20:42:36
On the 44th death anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the entire nation will lament the loss of a leader who was larger than life and dedicated to the welfare o...
Atiur Rahman 2019-08-14 20:39:42
Bangabandhu is a rare personality who drew strength from his life-long aspiration for making Bangladesh a poverty-free country. His commitment to egalitarian development for the masses was strong righ...
Sabbir Rahman Khan 2019-08-14 20:37:36
"Friendship with All, Malice towards None" was the message from the country's father of the nation that is the guiding light of Bangladesh's foreign policy. We proudly recall the times between 1972 an...
Muhammad Mahmood 2019-08-10 20:52:25
President Donald Trump has now taken the US trade war to a new height with the threat to impose 10 per cent tariffs on an additional US$300 billion worth of Chinese goods from September 01 with the ad...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2019-08-10 20:46:15
The basis for the Eid-ul Azha comes from the 196th verse of the second Surah, Al Baqara (The Cow), in the Quran. The word "Eid" appears in the fifth Sura al-Mai'da (The Table Spread) meaning 'solem...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury 2019-08-09 21:20:50
Last weekend was the deadliest one in the United States in recent history. A white young man drove to the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, entered the mall with an automatic assault weapon and fired at inno...
M. Rayhanul Islam 2019-08-08 22:16:04
Over the next few years, the world is expected to have the largest youth population. And these young people will be the main driving force for sustainable development of their community. Hence, it is...
Imtiaz A. Hussain 2019-08-08 20:49:12
Like the well-known "east-west" parable, the rich is rich, the poor is poor, and the twain shall never meet. Tanzil Shafique illustrates that pointedly through a discussion of Dhaka's 200,000-strong K...
Helal Uddin Ahmed 2019-08-07 21:11:27
Contrary to what the chairman of National Board of Revenue (NBR) claimed a few days ago, the country's tax rates, more specifically corporate tax, still remain very high compared to other middle-in...
Harold James in Munich 2019-08-06 21:18:46
Inequality is the leading political and economic issue of the current era, yet debates about it have long suffered from a degree of imprecision. For example, the standard measure of inequality, the Gi...
Stephen S. Roach in New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2019-08-05 21:55:00
A couple of months ago, while touring Jiangxi Province, Chinese President Xi Jinping made reference to an old revolutionary milestone. "Now there is a new Long March, and we should make a new start,...
Stefan Gerlach in Zurich 2019-08-05 21:15:30
The surprise nomination of Christine Lagarde to serve as the next president of the European Central Bank (ECB) has pleased many observers, including me, and disappointed others. Those who are pleased...
S. M. Rayhanul Islam, reviewing the book 2019-08-01 21:53:03
In an era of rapid urbanisation, for the first time in human history, more than fifty per cent of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Urban areas - cities and towns - of course, offer gre...
Anis Chowdhury in Sydney and Jomo Kwame Sundaram in Kuala Lumpur 2019-07-31 20:51:40
July 2019 saw the 75th anniversary of the historic conference of 44 countries held at the Bretton Woods (BW) resort in New Hampshire during July 1-22, 1944. CONFERENCE: At BW, John Maynard Keynes, re...
Zaidi Sattar 2019-07-30 20:59:43
Of late, there are good signs that diplomatic backchannels are working to effectuate a resolution to the Rohingya crisis. Foreign Minister, Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen described the recent visit of our Prime...
Annegret Bendiek, Nadine Godehardt, and David Schulze in Berlin 2019-07-30 20:50:10
The geopolitical significance of key digital technologies now takes centre stage in a new global conflict between the US and China. The dispute over the Chinese technology group Huawei exemplifies thi...
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